On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 10:10:10 PM UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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Rod Speed wrote
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I book the ferry and ALL my hotels on Booking.com BEFORE I set off

And you'd be ****ed if one of them comes unstuck and would
have to waddle around towing your immense box on wheels
to find a new one., With a mobile you can do it trivially.

This DID happen in 2016 when the border Romania-Moldova
was VERY slow and so I binned the already 3 days booked hotel
in Chisinau and decided to go to Brasov instead. I drove to a
MOL garage in Iasi, bought a coffee and used my laptop and
their WiFi to cancel the Moldovan hotel booking.

And if you had had enough of a clue to have a mobile,
you could have avoided farting around like that.

I did it myself, planned to drive into Sydney, catch the
train back because the kids were paying for the train.
Missed the train by minutes, next one was the same
time next day.

In 2016, I went on the ferry and train to Dortmund Xmas market. I printed out my tickets at home for the train and booked the NH hotel as well. On the way back, I was trying out my Iridium phone by ringing my daughter at home and missed the train out of Dortmund as a result.

I whipped out my Acer Aspire notebook, accessed the cloud and found the next train out of there. On the train itself, it was most amusing to see a gaggle of chav Man Citeh fans try and use their chav phones in the quiet carriage I had chosen. I could access the DB WiFi though as I could understand German and bought a DBahn access ticket for the day :-).